Garcinia gamblei (Clusiaceae), a new species from the southern Western Ghats, India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 297 (1) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
PEERUMUHAMMED SUBAIDA SHAMEER ◽  
THYAGARAJAN SABU ◽  
NARAYANAN NAIR MOHANAN

Garcinia gamblei, a new species of Garcinia from Ponmudi Hills, southern Western Ghats of India is described and illustrated. The new species is allied to G. pushpangadaniana another endemic species of southern Western Ghats.

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 196-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sainudeen Muhammed Shareef ◽  
Ettickal Sukumaran Santhosh Kumar ◽  
Thankappan Shaju ◽  
R Prakashkumar

A new species of Eugenia L. (Myrtcaeae), viz. E. kalamii, is described and illustrated from the Western Ghats of India. It is morphologically allied to E. mooniana Wight, (Indo-Sri Lankan species) and E. wynadensis Bedd., (endemic species of southern Western Ghats).


2021 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 219-230
Author(s):  
Surya Narayanan ◽  
Pratyush P. Mohapatra ◽  
Amirtha Balan ◽  
Sandeep Das ◽  
David J. Gower

We reassess the taxonomy of the Indian endemic snake Xylophis captaini and describe a new species of Xylophis based on a type series of three specimens from the southernmost part of mainland India. Xylophis deepakisp. nov. is most similar phenotypically to X. captaini, with which it was previously confused. The new species differs from X. captaini by having a broader, more regular and ventrally extensive off-white collar, more ventral scales (117–125 versus 102–113), and by lack of flounces on the body and proximal lobes of the hemipenis. Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial 16S DNA sequences strongly indicates that the new species is most closely related to X. captaini, differing from it by an uncorrected pairwise genetic distance of 4.2%. A revised key to the species of Xylophis is provided.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 212 (2) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
K. M. PRABHU KUMAR ◽  
M. OMALSREE ◽  
M. SABU ◽  
P. SUNOJKUMAR ◽  
BINU THOMAS ◽  
...  

A new species of Striga from Tamil Nadu parts of Western Ghats of India is described and illustrated as Striga kamalii sp. nov. The new species shows similarity with S. densiflora in having a densely hispid stem, linear leaves, bracts longer than calyx, and oblong fruit shorter than calyx lobes, but differs in the 10-ribbed calyx, the glandular hairs on calyx and corolla tube, and the obovate-rounded petals. A detailed description, with data on distribution and parasitism together with relevant taxonomic notes and colour photographs are provided.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 435 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
PICHAN M. SALIM ◽  
JOSE MATHEW ◽  
THODUVAYIL K. HRIDEEK

A new species of Sonerila (Melastomataceae: Sonerileae), S. sulpheyi, from the Southern Western Ghats of India is described. The branched inflorescence is the distinguishable character of this new species amongst acaulescent members of Western Ghats Sonerila. A taxonomic description, morphological comparisons with its allied taxa, diagnostic characters and colour photographs of the new taxon are provided.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 423 (5) ◽  
pp. 277-283
Author(s):  
MAKARAND MOHANRAO AITAWADE ◽  
JOSEPH JOHN KATTUKUNNEL ◽  
SHRIRANG RAMCHANDRA YADAV

A new species of Begonia, B. bachulkarii has been described from the southern Western Ghats of India, which appears to be a narrow endemic restricted to its type locality. It is closely allied to B. floccifera. Morphological similarities and differences between both species and with the remaining species of sect. Reichenheimia from India are discussed. An artificial key is provided for the identification of species of sect. Reichenheimia from India.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 387 (4) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
SUBBIAH KARUPPUSAMY ◽  
VELLINGIRI RAVICHANDRAN

A new species of Luisia megamalayana (Orchidaceae) is described and illustrated from Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of southern Western Ghats of India.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 188 (5) ◽  
pp. 282
Author(s):  
KONICKAL MAMBETTA PRABHU KUMAR ◽  
VADAKKOOT SANKARAN HAREESH ◽  
KOLLENCHERRI PUTHENVEETTIL VIMAL ◽  
INDIRA BALACHANDRAN ◽  
SHRIRANG RAMACHANDRA YADAV

The genus Chlorophytum Ker Gawler (1808: 1071) is one of the major genera of family Asparagaceae (APG 2009) with about 212 taxa (Kativu &a Nordal 1993, Govaerts et al. 2012). It is distributed in the Old World tropics especially in Africa and India (Mabberley 2005). It is represented by 17 species in India of which 15 occur in the Western Ghats (Malpure & Yadav 2009). Characters like anther filament ratio, anther filaments, number of tepal nerves, pedicel articulation and somatic chromosome number are taxonomically important (Adsul et al. 2014).


Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 272 (1) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
PURUSHOTTAM GORADE ◽  
MANDAR N. DATAR ◽  
RITESH KUMAR CHOUDHARY ◽  
PRAJAKTA S. PATHARE

Ischaemum agharkarii, a new species of Poaceae from the Northern Western Ghats of India is described and illustrated here. It is closely similar to two Indian endemic species, I. travancorense and I. santapaui but differs in having hairy first node, presence of side nodules on lower glume of both sessile and pedicelled spikelets, band of hairs on ventral side of lower glume and other morphological features. We provide detailed morphological description, distribution map and photographs of the new species.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-135
Author(s):  
Karuppusamy S ◽  
Ravichandran V

Ceropegia paulsamii Karuppusamy et Ravichandran sp. nov. (Apocynaceae) is described and illustrated from Megamalai wildlife sanctuary in southern Western Ghats of Tamilnadu state, India. It is similar to Ceropegia decaisneana Wight but differs in sub-succulent fasciculate roots, flowers with short corolla lobes with middle constriction, outer corona trilobed, whitish, and basally caudate each coronal segment.


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